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New York city, May 9, 1886. At the age of 

 seventeen he left home, and was apprenticed 

 as a ship-joiner to David Halsey, in New York 

 city. After serving for four years, he engaged 

 in business for himself and was so occupied 

 until his retirement in 1856. He then devoted 

 much of his time and means to educational, 

 reformatory, and charitable interests, becom- 

 ing actively identified with the New York Pris- 

 on Association, the Wetmore Home, the Home 

 for the Friendless, and the New York Female 

 College in West Fifty-fourth Street, and hold- 

 ing the office of president of the two corpora- 

 tions last named. 



Cntts, Richard 31., an American naval officer, 

 born in the District of Columbia in 1846 ; died 

 in San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 2, 1886. He en- 

 tered the Naval Academy in 1862, and was 

 graduated in 1866. He was on duty on the 

 "Ossipee," North Pacific fleet, in 1867-'68 ; 

 was promoted to ensign in April, 1868; at- 

 tached to the u Pensacola," North Pacific sta- 

 tion, in 1869; promoted to master, March 26, 

 1869 ; commissioned as lieutenant, March 21, 

 1870; assigned to special duty at Washington, 

 D. C., in 1870; ordered to the receiving-ship 

 "Independence" in 1871 ; to the Pacific fleet 

 in 187l-'72; to the "Powhatan," North At- 

 lantic station, in 1873 ; and to the navy-yard 

 at Mare Island, Cal., in 1874. From 1875 till 

 1879 he was engaged on Coast-Survey duty, 

 serving on the " Hassler " and the " Yukon," 

 and during the ensuing two years he was on 

 the "Monocacy" and the "Ashuelot," on the 

 Asiatic station. His last cruise expired in 

 April, 1882. He was made lieutenant-com- 

 mander, Oct. 31, 1884, and at the time of his 

 death was on duty at Mare Island Navy- Yard. 



Dall, Charles Henry Appleton, an American mis- 

 sionary, born in Baltimore, Md., Feb. 12, 1816 ; 

 died in Calcutta, British India, July 18, 1886. 

 He was educated at the Franklin and Latin 

 Schools in Boston, delivering the valedictory 

 at the latter institution, after which he was 

 graduated at Harvard in 1839 and at the Cam- 

 bridge Divinity School in 1840. For a year he 

 was occnpied in missionary work in connec- 

 tion with the Unitarian Church in St. Louis, 

 and was there ordained an evangelist in No- 

 vember, 1841. He then returned to the North, 

 and for a time was similarly employed in Bal- 

 timore with the Tuckerman mission. In 1846 

 he spent a year in Portsmouth, N. H., conduct- 

 ing a ministry to the poor, and later accepted 

 a pastorate in Needham, Mass. From 1849 

 till 1854 he preached in Toronto, Canada. 

 Failing health compelled him to relinquish this 

 charge, and in February, 1855, he sailed for 

 India as the first foreign missionary of the 

 Unitarian Church in America. He made Cal- 

 cutta his home, and his work thenceforth was 

 largely educational. The Mission School of 

 Useful Arts, the first Girls' School for Natives, 

 the first School for Homeless and Friendless 

 Children, and the first Children's Temperance 

 Society were organized by him. He was an 

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accomplished linguist, and was a member of 

 the American Oriental Society and of the Asi- 

 atic Society of Bengal, and a foreign associate 

 of the Hungarian Unitarian Society. Mr. Dall 

 was a frequent contributor to the press, both 

 in the United States and in India. He wrote 

 many tracts, educational and moral, hymns, 

 and devotional poems, and his pamphlets ex- 

 ceed one hundred in number, many of which 

 were several times reprinted in response to a 

 demand from the natives, for whose instruc- 

 tion they were intended. He was also the au- 

 thor of " From Calcutta to London by the Suez 

 Canal" (Calcutta, 1869). 



Davis, Joseph A., an American physician, born 

 in Bloomfield, N. J., July 1, 1813 ; died there, 

 Aug. 4, 1886. He was graduated at Prince- 

 ton in 1834, and began his medical studies in 

 the office of Charles Davis, M. D., at Elizabeth, 

 N. J., completing the course in that of Joseph 

 Smith Dodd, M. D., at Bloomfield, and receiv- 

 ing his degree from Jefferson College, Phila- 

 delphia, in 1838. He at once began practicing 

 in his native town, continuing until within a 

 few weeks of his death. At an early age he 

 manifested a strong interest in the cause of 

 popular education, and chiefly through his in- 

 dividual efforts the first free school in Bloom- 

 field was established in 1849. He served one 

 term as a member of the Board of Freeholders 

 of Essex County, the only political office he 

 was ever willing to accept. 



Delany, James J., an American physician, born 

 in Waterbury, Conn., in 1850; died in New 

 York city, April 2, 1886. He was graduated at 

 the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New 

 York, in 1874, and soon afterward entered the 

 Charity Hospital. At the expiration of his 

 term of service there he was appointed resi- 

 dent physician of the Small-pox Hospital on 

 Blackwell's Island, in charge of the New York 

 Board of Health. He served in this capacity 

 for five years, and then resigned and went to 

 Buenos Ayres, South America, with a view of 

 settling there permanently. But the climate 

 not proving congenial to him he returned to 

 New York and began practicing in the upper 

 part of the city, but was soon afterward ap- 

 pointed visiting physician to the Hospital for 

 Nervous Diseases. He was a close student, and 

 a pleasing writer on medical subjects. 



De Saussnre, Wilmot Gibbes, an American law- 

 yer, born in Charleston, S. 0., June 23, 1822; 

 died Feb. 1, 1886. He was a grandson of 

 Chancellor Henry W. De Saussure, of South 

 Carolina, who was also Director of the Mint 

 under Washington. He was graduated at South 

 Carolina College in 1840, studied law, and in 

 1833 was admitted to the bar. He was for 

 many years in the Legislature, and in Decem- 

 ber, 1860, commanded the State troops that 

 occupied Fort Moultrie on its evacuation by 

 Major Robert Anderson. He commanded the 

 artillery on Morris Island during the bom- 

 bardment of Sumter in 1861, and was afterward 

 Treasurer, Adjutant, and Inspector- General 



